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TIL: Antarctica & Iceland are the only places on earth with no
mosquitos.
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|u/NoKaleidoscope4295 - 1 month
|
|Also no snakes in Iceland. But I prefer no mosquito over no snakes. I
|hate mosquitos.
|u/Baulderdash77 - 1 month
|
|No snakes or mosquitoes but it’s full of midges. They are incredibly
|annoying and swarm like crazy.
|u/octopornopus - 1 month
|
|I believe they prefer the term "little people"...
|u/alwaysfatigued8787 - 1 month
|
|Congrats on making me laugh out loud or "LOL" as the kids say
|these days.
|u/___daddy69___ - 1 month
|
|bruh how old are you
|u/Mczern - 1 month
|
|They'll respond any minute now once they find another AOL
|trial disk(ette).
|u/rationalparsimony - 1 month
|
|Via "Electronic Mail" I presume???
|u/thehealingprocess - 1 month
|
|Their grandchildren used the house phone and knocked them
|off the modem. Might be a while
|u/alwaysfatigued8787 - 1 month
|
|Old enough...To party...
|u/shapeintheclouds - 1 month
|
|Tequila is my lady.
|u/Turky_Burgr - 1 month
|
|Ya no kidding lol. It's been said for over 25 years now.
|u/googolplexy - 1 month
|
|Leave Joe Biden alone!!
|u/Poop_Sexman - 1 month
|
|I’m a 30 year old kid and this is accurate
|u/degggendorf - 1 month
|
|Definitely the worst bugs I've experienced, including black fly
|season in upstate New York and Maine
|u/snuffy_tentpeg - 1 month
|
|Having grown up in the Northcountry I can confirm. It's a
|terrible thing to wish for the first hard frost to make hiking in
|the Adirondack or Green Mountains bearable.
|u/The_Shepherds_2019 - 1 month
|
|Should be a few more weeks here hopefully. Cmonnnnnnnnn winter
|u/hadoopken - 1 month
|
|I went to Iceland thought that I will not have mosquito problems,
|but those midget mosquitoes bite hard…
|u/MarmosetRevolution - 1 month
|
|Was there in July for the Scout Jamboree. Midges were absolutely
|insane. I'll take the mosquitoes. I know how to deal with them.
|u/Villain_of_Brandon - 1 month
|
|Yeah, snakes aren't a problem. They aren't actively seeking me out.
|u/TheresA_LobsterLoose - 1 month
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|That you know of...
|u/Villain_of_Brandon - 1 month
|
|That's better than the 100% of mosquitos that are highly
|interested in my ankles.
|u/fell-deeds-awake - 1 month
|
|Fun fact: only female mosquitoes bite people and animals
|u/Villain_of_Brandon - 1 month
|
|based on how many bites I get on my ankles when they're not
|covered up, I think the males also want a taste tbh...
|u/Shinzo19 - 1 month
|
|Hot single snakes if your area....
|u/Ouroboros612 - 1 month
|
|Sssss ..
|u/DrugChemistry - 1 month
|
|Antarctica has snakes???
|u/mrbear120 - 1 month
|
|Yeah, but it’s just one. His name is No Legs Nathan and he doesn’t
|like to talk about it.
|u/Atin321 - 1 month
|
|Is he at all related to Nate the Snake?
|u/Excitandis - 1 month
|
|Just in case anyone wants the answer, no snakes in Antarctica
|either!
|u/Emmaffle - 1 month
|
|There are also no snakes in Ireland, for which we have St Patrick to
|blame!
|u/MaximaFuryRigor - 1 month
|
|I'm sure you're joking, but I'm amazed at how many people aren't
|aware that there were never any snakes in Ireland at all.
|u/nalydpsycho - 1 month
|
|No, the British have been in Ireland many times.
|u/TypingIntoTheVoid9 - 1 month
|
|Well played
|u/ABob71 - 1 month
|
|I think he made a bad deal trading mosquitoes for snakes. He could
|have held out for a commemorative t-shirt, at least
|u/MapsAreAwesome - 1 month
|
|New Zealand has entered the chat.
|u/ShakaUVM - 1 month
|
|Unfortunately he did not also drive out the politicians -The guy
|driving my cart in the Gap of Dunloe
|u/Kep0a - 1 month
|
|That's not true anymore. My ex visited earlier this year
|u/Inside-Name4808 - 1 month
|
|There are no mosquitos in Iceland. There are other kinds of tiny
|flies, some of which swarm you and bite, but no mosquitos. We call
|them midges.
|u/baldie - 1 month
|
|What's not true? There are no snakes nor mosquitoes here
|u/Aenyn - 1 month
|
|They mean their ex is a snake
|u/Icedoverblues - 1 month
|
|I like mosquitoes. You can do anything you want to them. Anything.
|*Dennis stare*
|u/Raichu7 - 1 month
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|Snakes won't bother you if you don't bother them, mosquitos aren't so
|polite.
|u/NeatBeluga - 1 month
|
|Fuck no. There’s no snake spray or repellant and those fuckers are
|rather quick killers
|u/Powerfist_Laserado - 1 month
|
|Mosquitos kill orders of magnitude more people than snakes.
|u/RickityCricket69 - 1 month
|
|just wait til they start breeding. the ultimate killer
|u/Wootai - 1 month
|
|Snakesquito vs Sharktopus coming to Sci-Fi this fall.
|u/RickityCricket69 - 1 month
|
|holy shit fuck already?!
|u/classic_lurker - 1 month
|
|The return of snakequito on a plane (2027)
|u/Dzingel43 - 1 month
|
|How many times have you been bitten by a snake?
|u/OblivionGuardsman - 1 month
|
|I was born a snake handler and I'll die a snake handler.
|u/satisifedcitygal - 1 month
|
|I see your snake handler occupation, and I raise you a...
|mosquito handler! Have you ever seen those movie scenes where a
|mosquito lands on the protagonist's skin just perfectly, for the
|actor to wave the mosquito away? (don't worry the mosquito
|remains unharmed) It takes hours of clicker training for the
|mosquitos to learn to land on the right spot for the camera to
|capture it, along with ensuring the mosquito returns to his
|handler's container. Ever see the Bee movie? That's right.
|Mosquito handler.
|u/TheresA_LobsterLoose - 1 month
|
|35... ow, make that 36 times.
|u/lad1dad1 - 1 month
|
|just one and it was me (I'm a ouroboros)
|u/boricimo - 1 month
|
|6 times too many
|u/dragonsfire242 - 1 month
|
|Just spent three weeks in Costa Rica, I only almost stepped on a
|snake once but got bitten by mosquitoes about a million times, and
|knew two people who got Dengue fever while there. I’ll take snakes
|any day by comparison
|u/Quartznonyx - 1 month
|
|How many times have snakes been an issue in your daily life?
|u/snow_michael - 1 month
|
|The only snakes they _would_ have would be grass snakes, smooth
|snakes, and adders Two are non venomous, and the adders are only
|dangerous if you have an allergy
|u/NeatBeluga - 1 month
|
|How would you know if you're allergic pre-bite?
|u/snow_michael - 28 days
|
|I used to ask questions like that a lot People don't like them
|I discovered The real answer, it turns out, is that there is no
|way to know, but even for someone who is allergic, the toxin is
|slow acting enough for most people to be able to seek help in
|time The biggest theoretical allergic risk is more likely to be
|from adder antivenin which is likely to be from horse blood
|serum Approximately eight times as many people in the UK are
|allergic to horses than are found to be allergic to adder bites
|I've always thought this would be a good plot for a cosy village
|murder mystery
|u/Ebo_72 - 1 month
|
|No mosquitos, but they do have biting flies in parts. Like around Lake
|Myvatn in the North. Biting flies, but no itchy bites. But the swarms
|got so thick when I was there that I had to breath through my shirt so I
|wasn’t hoovering them into my mouth.
|u/Actual-Money7868 - 1 month
|
|What's the matter, you don't like protein? Mother earth is giving you
|nourishment, don't deny her.
|u/Ebo_72 - 1 month
|
|I prefer it in much more measured doses. And from a little further
|up the food chain.
|u/Actual-Money7868 - 1 month
|
|If you want to survive the apocalypse you'll have to become a
|filter feeder. As humans die insects will increase in number
|again. Black fly patè Locust Kebabs Ant Carbonara Worm
|fritters Should get a head start
|u/Ebo_72 - 1 month
|
|When the apocalypse comes around I’ll adjust my diet
|accordingly. But on a family vacation to Iceland I’ll stick to
|protein sources I can see from a comfortable distance. Like over
|the fence surrounding the field where my favorite sources of
|protein are grazing in blissful ignorance of their future
|prospects.
|u/Public-Policy24 - 1 month
|
|stick to the local protein sources, like rubbery 300 year old
|shark fermented in a pit in the ground
|u/Ebo_72 - 1 month
|
|There are lots of reasons to fully throw yourself into the
|cuisine of any place you visit. Rotten rubber shark is not
|one of them.
|u/Actual-Money7868 - 1 month
|
|Haha fair enough, enjoy Iceland! Be safe.
|u/Capt_BrickBeard - 1 month
|
|[just gonna leave this right
|here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Leo2k3WGyrs) i can't
|stand the text to speech but this is the video i'd wanted to
|share. god only knows where the original is. i can find this
|clip several times but all have that shitty text to speech ai
|bullshit that's taken over everything.
|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysqk337UNeg
|u/Actual-Money7868 - 1 month
|
|That's the exact video I was thinking of when I made my
|comment. Id have to be in a *wild* situation to eat mosquito
|patties. I'll be eating grass first.
|u/Capt_BrickBeard - 1 month
|
|wait'll you find out how they wash it down! *trigger
|warning* this video shows what some might call animal abuse.
|while the animal is harmed, it is not killed. this is a very
|old practice and should be viewed through that lens
|https://youtu.be/KeIRXJ9SJ1I?t=692 also as a side note, i
|don't believe these are the same groups of people, the
|'washing it down' comment is a joke. africa is a vast land
|with many peoples and many different ways of life.
|u/Actual-Money7868 - 1 month
|
|I feel like I've been ruined and seen everything already 😂
|You gotta do what you gotta do, they've probably been
|doing it for hundreds of thousands of years. That's peak
|human.
|u/radgepack - 1 month
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|Hi!
|u/Ebo_72 - 1 month
|
|Um…hi to you too
|u/bolli12345 - 1 month
|
|Btw, Mývatn is literally named after the flies. Shit gets wild around
|there.
|u/Ebo_72 - 1 month
|
|I think I did know that. My brain is a swirling miasma of trivia and
|looney tunes clips. It literally can be hard to remember what I
|know.
|u/RandomBritishGuy - 1 month
|
|I went during October, didn't see too many of them (might have been to
|windy/cold), so I guess it changes throughout the year.
|u/Ebo_72 - 1 month
|
|I live in Vermont. We have tons of black flies, mosquitoes, horse
|flies, and numerous other biting sucking insects. You wouldn’t find
|any here in October either. Myvatn is just below the Arctic circle.
|It’s getting pretty cold and even wintery by that time of year.
|u/montyp3 - 1 month
|
|iceland has a shit ton of noseeums tho
|u/majorjoe23 - 1 month
|
|Your comment made me go from “I want to go to Iceland” to “I will
|never go to Iceland.”
|u/toolschism - 1 month
|
|Come to Florida, we have both! ..I fucking hate this state.
|u/FjorgVanDerPlorg - 1 month
|
|Humans extincting insect species at neck breaking speeds, but
|seemingly unable to extinct the right insect species.
|u/majorjoe23 - 1 month
|
|I just got home from there a few weeks ago. I don’t think I had
|really experienced noseeums before Florida. My legs still haven’t
|recovered.
|u/rationalparsimony - 1 month
|
|I've been to Florida so many times, *ad noseeum.*
|u/jokar1134 - 1 month
|
|As someone who lives in Ohio I genuinely don't understand how
|people live in Florida and it has nothing to do with politics.
|Y'all are just built differently
|u/aleksndrars - 1 month
|
|go in the winter! i loved it.
|u/HolyLiaison - 1 month
|
|Iceland is beautiful... but also extremely expensive to visit.
|Prices there are WILD.
|u/snow_michael - 1 month
|
|I cannot agree Hotel prices, yeah, a bit But Airbnb and
|supermarkets, no worse than other Nordic countries, and cheaper
|than Norway
|u/DJKGinHD - 1 month
|
|[noseeums](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratopogonidae) For those
|interested. Has me rethinking certain life goals.
|u/Sometimes_Stutters - 1 month
|
|Arguably worse than mosquitoes
|u/selim_challie - 1 month
|
|Last longer and if you don’t know what they are(like I didn’t) you
|wonder wtf these little rash spots came from, I would say worse and
|that’s coming from someone in the Midwest of us.
|u/myctheologist - 1 month
|
|The midwest has no-see-ums as well, just lower numbers than the
|swarms you'll see in places like Iceland, Canada, or Alaska
|u/tothesource - 1 month
|
|damn. that qualifier means they're pretty damn bad.
|u/montyp3 - 1 month
|
|they crawl and fly so you can't just hide in a sleeping bag, they
|crawl in any little opening and get you
|u/TheresA_LobsterLoose - 1 month
|
|Noseeum? I barely know em!
|u/cwx149 - 1 month
|
|Is that like a nose museum?
|u/Salgado14 - 1 month
|
|Had one get behind my eye once
|u/Morgue724 - 1 month
|
|Actually Iceland does have one mosquito they killed it and put in in a
|museum, just read that fact a few days ago.
|u/Ok-Management9526 - 1 month
|
|Dude was probably the Magellan of mosquitoes, told their mosquito
|family that they were gonna travel to places no other mosquito ever
|has and actually did it but it cost them their life in the process
|u/iCowboy - 1 month
|
|IIRC it was killed on an Icelandair plane flying to Iceland so the
|poor thing never got to experience Iceland and feed on the huldufólk.
|u/akarichard - 1 month
|
|No mosquitoes yes, but they still flying biting pests. So don't go there
|expecting not to get harassed by bugs out for blood.
|u/lannister80 - 1 month
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|Black flies!
|u/a_toadstool - 1 month
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|I’d pick mosquitos over black flies and noseeums. Not to mention
|that bug first barely works for boseeums
|u/WhenTardigradesFly - 1 month
|
|is that why ciimbers always lather on mosquito repellent when they're
|making the final approach to the peak of mount everest?
|u/David-Puddy - 1 month
|
|Same with deep sea explorers. So many mosquitoes in Marianna's
|trench.
|u/Jugales - 1 month
|
|Don’t forget your mosquito repellent as you cross the dunes of the
|Sahara Desert
|u/Born_yesterday08 - 1 month
|
|Put a can of off in my coffin when I’m done please
|u/bonesnaps - 1 month
|
|Done. A can of beef stroginoff will be placed in your coffin.
|u/ChompyChomp - 1 month
|
|Get that 'noff off my coff!
|u/Listen-bitch - 1 month
|
|Hopefully, Mars doesn't have mosquitos. I'd rather Earth be the
|only planet with life than have mosquitos on another planet.
|u/trivalry - 1 month
|
|Mountains and oceans aren’t real #DoYourResearch
|u/robjapan - 1 month
|
|Where is mount Everest? As in what country? You may have thought your
|comment was smart but it's like me saying there's none in my room so
|there's none in Japan! Come on man...
|u/BigJimBeef - 1 month
|
|Border of Nepal and China.
|u/robjapan - 1 month
|
|And do those countries have mosquitoes?
|u/BigJimBeef - 1 month
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|Yes.
|u/robjapan - 1 month
|
|Therefore Everest doesn't qualify....
|u/BigJimBeef - 1 month
|
|I question your ability to read.
|u/robjapan - 1 month
|
|The post I replied to which at the time was the top
|comment lacked that ability.
|u/Lildyo - 1 month
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|It’s fairly common knowledge…
|u/robjapan - 1 month
|
|Thus there are mosquitoes in the countries where Everest is in.
|u/smurf124 - 1 month
|
|the post isnt about countries though. it says antarctica and
|iceland are the only places with no mosquitos
|u/robjapan - 1 month
|
|In that case add my room to the list... There's no mosquitoes
|here either. Oh and inside my pc and this box here... None
|there either. Although Antarctica isn't a country it is
|considered a "land mass" which I guess is what countries are.
|So yes the post is about "countries" it is implied and clearly
|understood to be about that.
|u/smurf124 - 1 month
|
|everest/the himalayas is a fairly prominent location. its
|not like someone said 'oh but theres no mosquitos in this
|village in nepal either'. if you're gonna make shit up and
|call antarctica a 'country' just because it suits your
|argument then whats the point of said argument. i genuinely
|have no clue what point youre exactly trying to even make
|here, such a weird hill to die on
|u/robjapan - 1 month
|
|Clearly the article is about countries. Specifically
|saying "well the top of mountain doesn't" is so dumb. If
|you know anything you'll know that Antarctica is in
|specific a very odd place in that we've all agreed not to
|claim it and make it a country. Even if I do die on this
|hill, at least there's no mosquitoes!
|u/ranklebone - 1 month
|
|No mosquitos in my refrigerator. So, three places then.
|u/DreiKatzenVater - 1 month
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|Greenland has them?
|u/Obvious-Ad2729 - 1 month
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|Kind of. It’s very very far down in this article.
|https://www.arcticfriend.com/about-greenland/faq-before-traveling-to-g
|reenland/#:~:text=Are%20there%20many%20mosquitos%20in,mosquitos%20in%2
|0June%20and%20July.
|u/Ok-Car3407 - 1 month
|
|A lot.
|u/wildyam - 1 month
|
|*…Yet…*
|u/socialdirection - 1 month
|
|I don’t think Ireland has mosquitos either. I’ve never seen one there or
|had a bite in the summer. Source. I am from Ireland, and now live in
|Los Angeles, where we definitely do have mosquitos.
|u/5Hjsdnujhdfu8nubi - 1 month
|
|Sadly no, there's mosquitoes in the UK + Ireland.
|u/MaximusDecimiz - 1 month
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|Are there? I’m sure you’re right I’ve just never seen or been bitten
|by one in the UK (grew up down south)
|u/himit - 1 month
|
|Just not many! You normally get them near the rivers. I live
|near the Thames and get them in my flat occasionally during the
|summer.
|u/5Hjsdnujhdfu8nubi - 1 month
|
|I can't personally vouch, only assume the UK/Ireland insect guides
|+ resources I've used are telling the truth. I think it's because
|there's not really much in the way of rivers and swamps here
|anymore.
|u/RandomBritishGuy - 1 month
|
|Had a collosal one in my room (Manchester) a few months ago. I
|could hear the whining sound from several meters away the fucker
|was so big.
|u/Independent_Heart_15 - 1 month
|
|Live in rural Ireland, they sure are a thing near bodies of water.
|u/therealCatnuts - 1 month
|
|There’s no mosquitos in Aruba, too windy. 
|u/IrksomFlotsom - 1 month
|
|TIL midges are a form of mosquito
|u/aasinnott - 1 month
|
|There are but only in certain places that usually aren't inhabited
|much. Been here 27 years without ever getting bitten or seeing one.
|Then spent a weekend in a bog in Kerry and got about a dozen bites.
|u/therealCatnuts - 1 month
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|Malaria was a huge cause of death in pre-modern England and Ireland. 
|u/D3adH3ad1988 - 1 month
|
|And the picture used for the article is....Sedona, AZ?
|u/hip-hop_anonymous - 1 month
|
|Yet
|u/fatmanwa - 1 month
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|Most of the Aleutian Islands do not have mosquitos.
|u/MacDugin - 1 month
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|Neckar island is trying to change that.
|u/zanarkandabesfanclub - 1 month
|
|Does Hawaii have mosquitoes? I was there years ago and vaguely recall a
|local saying they didn’t.
|u/Dirtboy345 - 1 month
|
|Natively no, but they are there now :(
|u/dreaminginteal - 1 month
|
|Apparently Hawaii didn't have mosquitos until about 1830, when a ship
|dumped its ballast tanks that had mosquito eggs and larvae in them.
|u/mrcheevus - 1 month
|
|I heard it was Captain Cook who brought mosquitoes to Hawaii.
|u/PrepareToBeLetDown - 1 month
|
|Some chemo patients don't get mosquito bites. So go get some chemo!
|u/BackItUpWithLinks - 1 month
|
|Try Captain Morgan instead. I’m pickled with rum and never get bit.
|u/The_McS - 1 month
|
|There are no cats in America. I also hear the streets are made of cheese
|but can’t confirm.
|u/ToeKnail - 1 month
|
|Would like to add that Colorado, being rather dry, has very few
|mosquitos comparatively.
|u/Novemcinctus - 1 month
|
|I suspect there are no mosquitoes in much of the Sahara or the open
|ocean
|u/doobyscoo018 - 1 month
|
|I read somewhere iceland has the only mosquito in the country in a
|museum. Can't remember when it is from maybe the 90,s
|u/KombattWombatt - 1 month
|
|Probably not the Penis Museum. I don't remember seeing it. But it
|was probably pretty small so maybe I missed it.
|u/IWantTheLastSlice - 1 month
|
|But enough about your penis, what about the mosquito?
|u/doobyscoo018 - 1 month
|
|Are we still talking about the mosquito
|u/Bellbivdavoe - 1 month
|
|Heard they're headed to Alaska for moose blood... *crazy stuff, blows
|your head off.*
|u/greengo4 - 1 month
|
|How evil do you have to be to intentionally smuggle mosquitoes into
|Iceland so they have the deal with everyone else does.
|u/FluidDreams_ - 1 month
|
|Moving to Iceland.
|u/theagonyofthefeet - 1 month
|
|*So far
|u/urbanek2525 - 1 month
|
|There are mosquitos in Greenland? Svalbard? Nordaustlander? South
|Georgia island?
|u/Obvious-Ad2729 - 1 month
|
|Sort of. https://www.mosquito-
|forecast.org/en/forecast/Svalbard/Longyearbyen
|u/KoreanJesusPleasures - 1 month
|
|Svalbard is part of Norway, and yes Norway has mosquitoes.
|u/Ok-Car3407 - 1 month
|
|Lots in Greenland.
|u/TheRazorBoyComes - 1 month
|
|Places to visit...
|u/BeepBlipBlapBloop - 1 month
|
|That's an ocean
|u/denyplanky - 1 month
|
|And surprisingly, Disneyland. Don't know how they did it in the Magic
|Kingdom, but no mosquitoes.
|u/_PukyLover_ - 1 month
|
|Not yet
|u/SoftDimension5336 - 1 month
|
|Yet. Yet. Yet.
|u/rattalouie - 1 month
|
|Yet. 
|u/BeepBlipBlapBloop - 1 month
|
|I live on Vancouver Island, where there are no skunks. Alberta claims
|that there are no rats in their provence, but I just can't believe it.
|u/UpgrayeDD405 - 1 month
|
|Hawaii was mosquito free until European explorers
|u/garyblahblah - 1 month
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|For now.
|u/MrFrode - 1 month
|
|Challenge accepted -Bill Gates
|u/im4ruckus2 - 1 month
|
|As a resident of Sedona I can confirm that there are plenty of
|mosquitoes here! During the Monsoon season from mid June to September
|there are lots of places where they breed. When the wind is low they
|will attack! I hear that they lay their eggs in dry places and they
|hatch when the rains come. This year has been particularly thick with
|the little buggers.
|u/Gralin71 - 1 month
|
|Black flies??
|u/juxtoppose - 1 month
|
|Never seen a mosquito in Scotland.
|u/Vakr_Skye - 1 month
|
|husky brave nose imminent public zesty offbeat future makeshift air
|*This post was mass deleted and anonymized with
|[Redact](https://redact.dev)*
|u/Ancient_Amount3239 - 1 month
|
|I live in East Texas and always assumed here and south Louisiana had the
|world’s worst mosquitoes. Boy was I wrong! Alaska has the worst
|mosquitoes I’ve ever seen. They would block the sun out they were so
|thick.
|u/Various_Wrangler4748 - 1 month
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|Mosquitos are Alaska's state bird! LOL
|u/bolanrox - 1 month
|
|and Maine has the black (or was it horse?) flies
|u/Apocrisiary - 1 month
|
|I don't know why, maybe it's the wind blowing them away (kinda windy),
|but here in south-western Norway we have basically no mosquitos too.
|Like, I know they excist here, we do have plenty bodies of freshwater,
|hot summers and a lot of farm animals, so there should be plenty. But
|still, rarely EVER see one, let alone get bitten.
|u/Mormegil1971 - 1 month
|
|There are midges in Iceland, though. Lots of them, A.k.a the Icelandic
|Airforce.
|u/Gilbert0686 - 1 month
|
|Time to move to Iceland!
|u/Zantal - 1 month
|
|Yet
|u/einsibongo - 1 month
|
|We have biting midges though thanks to a container of timber that had
|not been processed according to regulations, the spread every year. I
|get the same reaction to their bites.
|u/drempire - 1 month
|
|They do still have flying biting pests, Americans go to Antarctica for
|science and travel to Iceland to take pictures of lava
|u/jreykdal - 1 month
|
|Are you calling Americans "flying biting pests"?
|u/XROOR - 1 month
|
|Mosquitoes breed at such a fast rate, one needs to adjust DEET
|percentages throughout a single season to combat wave after wave. More
|hurricane activity nowadays gives ample time for these life cycles to
|breed at a more exponential pace. Millions of iterations now becomes a
|billion. They will soon be numerous in Antarctica and Iceland as long
|as there are humans there too. SC Johnson will have to tweak their
|DEET cocktail to not be affected by freezing temps. Maybe sell regular
|OFF! with a pocket warmer.
|u/Kimchi_Cowboy - 1 month
|
|Black flies are worse than mosquitos.
|u/bolanrox - 1 month
|
|woooh buddy how about ticks? and snakes?
|u/TreeliasDave - 1 month
|
|Iceland has a lake called mosquito lake. Well there may not be
|mosquitos, my friends definitely had a lot of bites.
|u/Guido_da_Squido - 1 month
|
|My backyard has more than enough for both of them.
|u/Fun_Pattern523 - 1 month
|
|My first floor bathroom presently has no mosquitos, and it is a place on
|earth. So there.
|u/Velzevul666 - 1 month
|
|As someone that lives in a place with almost all year mosquito presence,
|this sounds so awesome! If only I could stand the cold....
|u/mybffjones - 1 month
|
|Well not anymore! Bill Gates heard you!
|u/ToxicAdamm - 1 month
|
|I want to live long enough to see mosquitos eradicated. As someone who
|has been harassed by them my whole life (and get giant welts from the
|smallest of bites) I want to feel the freedom of going near the woods at
|dusk at not dreading it.
|u/cygnusX1and2 - 1 month
|
|Ontario biting bugs in order of spring/summer appearance: Mosquitos
|from previous year, Black Flies, Mosquitos, Black Flies and Mosquitos,
|Deer Flies and Mosquitos, Midges and Mosquitos, Horse Flies and
|Mosquitos, Mosquitos, Mosquitos,
|u/Competitive-Nerve134 - 1 month
|
|You know what I like about Manhattan? There’s *no* mosquitos
|u/anthonycadillac - 1 month
|
|And Disney land right?? Rabbit hole warning.
|u/Theonedowner3 - 1 month
|
|Moving to Iceland stat
|u/cupris_anax - 1 month
|
|Bring mosquitoes
|u/GamingWithBilly - 1 month
|
|The way we're going, they are the only places on earth Yet to have
|mosquitos.
|u/reddit_user13 - 1 month
|
|Global warming will fix that.
|u/eep_ekil_llems_I - 1 month
|
|As someone who lived there. There is a particularly mosquitoesque
|annoying fu**er that bites the shit out of you in iceland.
|u/UnCommonSense99 - 1 month
|
|England doesn't have mosquitoes. I know, I live here.
|u/SituationNorth - 1 month
|
|I never had any growing up in the UK either. When I moved to North
|America my mosquito bites swelled like golf balls - I assume due to no
|immunity build-up
|u/iCowboy - 1 month
|
|There are about 30 species of mosquitoes native to the UK. Fortunately
|most aren’t biting varieties, but we do have Culiseta annulata which
|does like feasting on people. It’s quite common in urban areas.
|u/UnCommonSense99 - 1 month
|
|Interesting!
|u/RandomBritishGuy - 1 month
|
|We do. They're rare, but we do. 30 native species in fact (though
|some don't go for humans, and most tend to be confined to certain
|environments). Ive seen a couple in Manchester over the summer.
|u/KoreanJesusPleasures - 1 month
|
|They do, and I lived there.
|u/callfckingdispatch - 1 month
|
|That's it I'm moving to Iceland
|u/Swimming_Chemist1719 - 1 month
|
|Time to move to Iceland.
|u/duga404 - 1 month
|
|Extending that to the entire planet should be a goal
|u/Octavian_Exumbra - 1 month
|
|Yet
|u/NikNakskes - 1 month
|
|How did Iceland manage to escape being infested with mosquitoes? And no,
|its not because it is cold there. Siberia is mosquito paradise.
|u/iCowboy - 1 month
|
|Geographically isolated for most of history and almost no land mammals
|until humans arrived with livestock. Before that, there was only the
|Arctic fox.
|u/bolanrox - 1 month
|
|Fjallraven!
|u/snow_michael - 1 month
|
|Not a mammal
|u/snow_michael - 1 month
|
|Arctic hares, wood mice, seals, whales, bats
|u/babyybilly - 1 month
|
|Yet.  No mosquitoes, yet
|u/ForRpUsesOnly - 1 month
|
|Ferb, I know what we're going to do today!
|u/awesome_possum007 - 1 month
|
|I call BS! I had one land on my arm in iceland and I was so shocked when
|I saw it. Reality set in when it started sucking my blood. Possibly it
|was a mosquito that decided to take a ride on a plane.
|u/Kool_McKool - 1 month
|
|Time to learn Icelandic.
|u/SvodolaDarkfury - 1 month
|
|Wait so there's mosquitoes in Greenland?
|u/saschaleib - 1 month
|
|Iceland has one mosquito - it is in their natural history museum.
|u/Multidream - 1 month
|
|*yet
|u/adymck11 - 1 month
|
|Ireland has no snakes and no mozzies. I mean there are probably
|mozzies here, but not in the general population
|u/Mrcl45515 - 1 month
|
|Malaria, Dengue and other tropical mosquitoe spread diseases will soon
|be arriving to Europe and North America and it will be devastating
|before the populations adapt.
|u/weird_offspring - 1 month
|
|yet
|u/nickncs - 1 month
|
|I've never seen a mosquito in the UK where TF are they here?
|u/MouthfulOfBees - 1 month
|
|Having lived exclusively in the north, Manchester has them, Leeds and
|Sheffield do also. Been bitten in Wales and battled Midges in
|Scotland.
|u/ComfortQuiet7081 - 1 month
|
|Why are there mosquitos in Greenland but not in Iceland?
|u/Big_Brain219 - 1 month
|
|Mosquitoes are present in Greenland but not in Iceland due to
|differences in climate and weather patterns. Greenland has more stable
|and continuous winters, allowing mosquito pupae to hibernate under ice
|and hatch in spring when the ice melts. In contrast, Iceland
|experiences frequent freeze-thaw cycles, with rapid temperature
|changes that disrupt the mosquito lifecycle. This variability prevents
|mosquitoes from completing their lifecycle, as they may hatch
|prematurely and die when temperatures drop again. Or they signed a
|treaty.
|u/ComfortQuiet7081 - 1 month
|
|Intresting, thanks!
|u/Big_Brain219 - 1 month
|
|No problem. Glad I could help.
|u/supetar - 1 month
|
|Give it time...
|u/Supersnazz - 1 month
|
|There's actually lots of places without mosquitos. There's none in my
|car for example.
|u/Big_Brain219 - 1 month
|
|Is that because you don't have a car or another reason?
|u/Supersnazz - 1 month
|
|There's just no mosquitoes in it right now
|u/Big_Brain219 - 1 month
|
|Well if they come out into the yard I know where we can have our
|beers. Just don't turn the car on for the radio. The coppers could
|get ya for DUI for that.
|u/dltsgyd - 1 month
|
|yet..
|u/dark_hypernova - 1 month
|
|Not yet...
|u/ClavenEstine - 1 month
|
|Yet !
|u/Agzarah - 1 month
|
|No mosquitos and the ecosystem is fine. Proof they can be eradicated
|without issue :)
|u/TheRealKestrel - 1 month
|
|I don't think there are mosquitoes on hawaii
|u/Wonderful-Aspect5393 - 1 month
|
|Wait for it …
|u/8cuban - 1 month
|
|I knew there was an extra reason I loved Iceland on our trip last month,
|but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it!
|u/gtp1977 - 1 month
|
|Yet
|u/surprisedcactus - 1 month
|
|This is just an advertisement for a company
|u/Pjstjohn - 1 month
|
|They sound amazing.
|u/Mish61 - 1 month
|
|This is a dubious claim. Mosquitos are practically non existent above
|9,000' in elevation. Lots of place on earth above this level.
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